----- Original Message -----
From: Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: Naming Mythical creatures
> B. Garcia <madyaas@...> uràcel:
>
> 10: qacairunùr is the name of a primordial monster from the very dawn of
> time, now bound in the outer darkness outside the year (ie outside the
> normal bounds of the cosmos).
sounds kinda like Apep (known to Classical Greeks as Apophis) from Ancient
Egypt...the one thing that exists outside of Creation (and didn't have a
part in Creation).
> The Babylonian Tiamat is a more or less
> functional equivalent. The name qacairunùr comes from the words
> qac "fang", airùrun "howl" and nuor "darkness".